noun:

• day and night shift work schedule

noun / ~する noun:

• clapping and cheering; applause - four character idiom

noun:

• (European) Economic and Monetary Union; EMU

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Ōsaka dialect ➜ 才取会員

noun:

• mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)

noun:

• hard bop

adverb:

• right and proper; legal

noun:

• drought and floods

noun:

• old and lightly handicapped men (ritsuryo system) ➜ 老丁・残疾

noun:

• fine weather and cloudy

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• original and copy (of a document)
• principal and vice; chief and vice-chief

noun:

• widow and widower; lonely people

noun / ~する noun:

• ripening and turning yellow

noun:

• candle decorated with pictures, e.g. of colored birds and flowers

expression:

• three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones (Confucius) - four character idiom Antonym: 損者三友【そんしゃさんゆう】

expression / adverb:

• both in name and reality; both in name and substance ➜ 名実相伴う

noun:

• this world (life) and the next; eternity - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• borrowing and reading

noun:

• man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activites - obscure term ➜ 十二直

noun:

• discrimination of right and wrong; distinguishing between right and wrong - four character idiom

noun:

• classification of the sutras and their teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

expression / adjective:

• hard on others but easy on oneself